Gruncheon
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Hayao Miyazaki said something similar about anime. Artists from his generation tended to make anime based on their interests, experiences or fantasies while today's artists are shutins who are afraid of interacting with other people and thus base their anime on other anime, leading to a cycle of cannibalization until not a single original thought is left. It's peak culture industry, people have been so brainwashed by bland products masquerading as art they can't even comprehend art as anything other than another iteration of the same trash. And they don't even need to sell their shit, which just shows how deeply this problem runs.The old school guys from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, based on a lot of things. Game devs were nerds who often read a bunch of cool old literature, played tabletop games, saw loads of epic movies, etc.
Nowadays, modern game devs seem to base games on... games.
I remember that interview, it was a real 'if only you knew how bad things really are' moment.
You start seeing this phenomenon basically everywhere once you start looking for it. Even the sex stuff in this game is a good example. If you read literature (particularly fantasy/sci-fi) from more than 40 years ago it's almost funny how horny for women those guys were. Just this slavering horndogginess when they describe an attractive woman. The fetish in those books is busting a nut in an attractive woman, no more and no less. It comes across as Boomer cringe to a modern reader, but there's actually something endearingly honest and healthy about it.
Contrast that with the weird fetish stuff in this game. I used to think it was some kind of ironic scatalogical joke, but it's become clear that these writers have just developed these totally warped, unnatural fetishes that no healthy person should have. It's particularly pronounced here, but you see it in a more diluted form throughout the entire industry - male gaze is out, miserable thankless monologue about asexuality is in.
Every day Alex Jones' theory about xenoestrogens in the water proves more and more true.